Google releases Google Video Player for Mac OS X

Google has released Google Video Player for Mac which includes the following features:
• Watch videos downloaded from Google Video
• Browse scenes within a video using thumbnails
• Skip to anywhere in the video, even if that portion hasn’t downloaded yet
• Sit back and watch videos in full screen mode
• Resume video downloads automatically

System Requirements:
• Video card with at least 16 MB of RAM
• 1 Ghz or faster processor
• Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher

More info and download link (7.6MB) here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacDoc” for the heads up.]

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34 Comments

  1. “”Static” in “static mesh” doesn’t mean “doesn’t move” – it can be moved, rotated, retextured and scaled (even disproportionally) in realtime. The “static” only refers to the fact that it can’t be animated, that is, the relative positions of the vertices are fixed. Hence, static meshes are useful for displaying pieces of architecture that don’t move at all or might move as a whole, but they’re no good for displaying players, whose bodies need to bend and change shape.”

    I always thought you could be retextured.

  2. Not really funny when you realize how funny the original song really is. This is from the Broadway Musical “Avanue Q”, about a neighborhood in Manhattan full of gay puppets. Try it out.. you’ll like it…..

  3. Okay, so will this player play Google’s pay content? I would assume yes, but I can’t find anywhere that says for sure and I’m not about to pay for some video just to find out. Google Video’s help page still says that pay videos are Windows-only, but they may simply not have updated yet.

    If we do have access to the premium content, then hurrah for the first real competition to iTunes. Shame Google Video is so pathetic. Either be YouTube or be a video store. Being both doesn’t work.

    (For a perfect example, enter “CSI” into the player’s search window and see what comes up.)

    ——RM

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